Bowling! / Basketball!
Two titles are available in this cart: Bowling!: one to four players take turns in this game. The alley is shown from a top down view and the ball moves back and forth at the foul line. The players have to…
1 December 1978
Bowling! / Basketball! is a sport developed by Magnavox, released 1 December 1978 on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000.
What Bowling! / Basketball! is
Bowling! / Basketball! is a sport game developed by Magnavox and released in 1978. It is available on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two titles are available in this cart: Bowling!: one to four players take turns in this game. The alley is shown from a top down view and the ball moves back and forth at the foul line. The players have to press the action button to release the ball and can add an effect to it by pressing left or right on the right hand controller. Each player gets two balls per frame, except in the case of a strike. A strike scores 30 points, a spare 15 points and an open play scores one point for each pin hit. There are two game modes, League Night (selected by pressing "1"), with a slower swinging ball, and Tournament Play (selected by pressing "2"), with a faster swinging ball. Basketball! (selected by…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
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When did Bowling! / Basketball! come out?
Bowling! / Basketball! was released on 1 December 1978 for Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000.
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